Riot police remove protesters trying to stop the expansion of a coal mine in western Germany.
German police say they have removed almost all climate activists from a German village that will be destroyed to allow the expansion of a coal mine.
Hundreds of officers cleared around 300 activists from Lützerath in an operation that began on Wednesday. Police say they removed activists waiting in treehouses, a day after clashes broke out between both sides. Two people were still holding out in an underground tunnel at the site in western Germany, police added.
"There are no further activists in the village of Lützerath," police said, adding that the buildings at the site had been cleared by Friday.Climate activists said that the village and others nearby should not be demolished and the coal under them, near an open-cast brown coal mine, should be left in the ground.
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